Research Director
Declan Conway is Research Director at LSE's Grantham Research Institute. His research cuts across water, climate and society. He has current interests in behavioural and psychological approaches to water security and adaptation. Declan draws on insights from different disciplines to pursue problem focused research. He has over 25 years of experience working in the UK/Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Declan’s research funding has included the EU, UK government departments FCDO and Defra, UK NERC and ESRC, US NSF, Canadian IDRC and the World Bank.
Declan is jointly leading BASIN (Behavioural Adaptation for water Security and INclusion), which aims to synthesise, assess and test the application potential of behavioural and psychological science perspectives for adaptation to enhance water security for the most vulnerable. BASIN is working in Burkina Faso, Malawi and Tanzania in a transdisciplinary partnership with three other universities, three NGOs and a knowledge broker.
Recently completed projects include Climate resilience in the UK wine sector – CREWS-UK, Development Corridors Partnership and UMFULA (Uncertainty reduction in Models For Understanding deveLopment Applications).
Joined 2023
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United Kingdom
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Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
